Charles F. Emmons, Professor of Sociology, contributed an essay to the Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience, edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck (Sage, 2009). The essay, titled "The Spiritualist Movement," examines the history of the Spiritualist movement in regard to its approach to the meaning of death and compares the work of spirit mediums in the U.S. and England to that of mediums in other cultures.